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Coruisk House
Four rooms and a serious kitchen at the far end of Skye's Strathaird peninsula.
Craigellachie Hotel
An 1893 Speyside hotel whose Quaich Bar holds one of Scotland's great malt collections.
Hotel Portmeirion
Stay within the famous pastel village, with estuary-front hotel rooms and castle suites.
Hotel Tresanton
Olga Polizzi's seaside hotel on the Roseland, all sea light, terraces and Cornish art.
Inver Lodge
A hillside lodge over Lochinver bay, with Chez Roux cooking and the Assynt peaks beyond.
Kinloch Lodge
A Michelin-starred fifteen-room lodge on Loch na Dal, run by the Macdonald family on Skye.
Linthwaite House
A quietly glamorous hillside retreat looking down the length of England's longest lake.
Lundies House
Wildland's north-coast house above the Kyle of Tongue: full board, sauna yurt, no fuss.
Morston Hall
Galton Blackiston's small Michelin-starred hotel on the north Norfolk coast, near Blakeney Point.
Northcote
A Michelin-starred Lancashire restaurant with rooms, long a fixture of northern fine dining.
Star Castle Hotel
A 16th-century garrison fort on St Mary's, converted into a family-run island hotel.
Talbooth House & Spa
A relaxed Essex hillside retreat above Dedham Vale, with heated outdoor pool and day spa.
The Angel at Hetton
Michael Wignall's Michelin-starred inn, with sixteen rooms in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.
The Angel Hotel
Georgian coaching inn in Abergavenny, long the social heart of the Monmouthshire food scene.
The Cawdor
Eighteenth-century former coaching inn in Llandeilo, restored as a town-centre boutique hotel.
The Fife Arms
An art-filled Cairngorms inn, with thousands of works hung among tartan and taxidermy.
The Parkgate Hotel
Cardiff's grandest new hotel, in a converted Edwardian building with a rooftop spa.
THE PIG-on the beach
A shabby-grand Dorset house above Studland Bay, built around its own kitchen garden.
The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa
A five-star hotel occupying the middle houses of Bath's Royal Crescent, with a garden spa.
The Royal Hotel
A long-running clifftop hotel above Ventnor Bay with sub-tropical gardens and a heated pool.
The Star Inn at Harome
Andrew Pern's celebrated thatched inn, rebuilt after fire, with rooms across the lane at Cross House Lodge.
The Storehouse Restaurant with Rooms
A converted waterfront storehouse in Kirkwall with eight rooms and an excellent kitchen.
The Whitebrook
Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms in a wooded Wye Valley hamlet near Tintern.
Twr y Felin Hotel
Contemporary art hotel built around an 1806 windmill, minutes from St Davids Cathedral.